Just a wee note that it’s looking like the Wednesday night meet up isn’t happening tonight (non-SSIWers are meeting in another pub for a music thing, Sam is ill, and I’m just probs not going to go). But normal service (in James Street Tavern) resumes next week.

if evening, then could congregate in a pub in the centre that does food.

That sounds like a superb idea.

John, I’m getting slightly tentative about time - I think probably best to say 2 - I can’t see how it could run beyond that in any sane universe, but it isn’t the kind of talk I’d want to cut short if by any chance it’s still rolling…

So we could maybe say I shall be quite at leisure in the King’s Arms from 2 (so if any young men come for my other daughters, send them in…;-)).

It would be great to see you! I can very easily still be at the King’s Arms by then - possibly starting to think in terms of food, and either eating there or moving on somewhere else - but if you’re running late and I move on, I’ll update in here…

Otherwise - I’m going to aim for 2ish, but we have a new variable - I wasn’t sure if my great-aunt was going to be well enough for a visit or not, but it turns out that she is - so I’m now going:

So I think 2 still looks a reasonable target - the 11.00 meeting might be all over and done in an hour, in which case it’s easy - if it runs to a couple of hours, that still gives me time to pop out to Marston, but might make me 15 or 20 minutes late for the King’s Arms.

Sorry - my life is often this hard to pin down, so it seems fairly normal by now - and not best practice for asking other people if they’d like to practise some Welsh! But I’ll update in here as things become clearer…

Helo pawb - as it looks as if everyone who might have come to a Monday meetup will be meeting up with Aran on Tuesday, we’ll forget about Monday and meetup up instead in the King’s Arms on Tuesday at 1pm which will give us a chance to ‘warm up’ our Welsh before Aran arrives - and don’t forget that if early afternoon doesn’t suit, you can join Sam and Laura who’ll be arriving at the King’s Arms around 6.30pm to meet up with Aran too.

So, plans for next week:

Tues 29 Jan 1pm AND 6.30pm in King’s Arms, Holywell St/Parks Rd

Wed 30 Jan 8.30pm in James Street Tavern, James St., East Oxford (maybe check with @s-coates1 on this)

and meetup up instead in the King’s Arms on Tuesday at 1pm which will give us a chance to ‘warm up’ our Welsh before Aran arrives

It’s not impossible (although it will be a sign that things are running rather later than planned) that it will also give you the chance to eavesdrop on my meeting with Routledge (which might be quite interesting if it’s run on that long…;-)).

[She said where shall we meet, and I looked shocked at the suggestion that anyone would meet anywhere other than the King’s Arms.]

So if you see me leaving just as you arrive, I’m not trying to avoid you, I’m just playing catch-up…